Russia hits back at US and UK embassies with ‘unrecognised’ addresses

A sign reading “Luhansk People’s Republic Square” is set outside the British embassy in Moscow (Alexander Avilov, Moscow News Agency photo via AP)

Moscow has taken a page out of Washington’s playbook to troll both the US and the UK by renaming the streets in front of their embassies in the Russian capital.

The streets are now officially named after the two separatist regions of eastern Ukraine where fighting is now the fiercest.